Woman Held On Charge Of Pulling Gun On Couple

December 11, 1992

LEESBURG — A heated argument in a grocery store allegedly prompted a Yalaha woman to pull out a gun and threaten to shoot a Groveland couple.

Valerie Yolanda Bedford, 22, remained in the Lake County Jail Thursday night after being charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, Leesburg police said. She was being held in lieu of $3,000 bond.

Bedford was arrested Wednesday after the couple told police she came after them when they walked out of the Winn-Dixie supermarket at the Southside Shopping Center on U.S. Highway 27, detective Chuck Nall said.

The couple and Bedford had been arguing a few minutes earlier while inside the store in a checkout aisle, authorities said.

The couple gave a license plate number to police, and police said they used that number to find Bedford.